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| The Future Ain't What it Used to Be! Have been meaning to start a blog about a subject that I find facsinating and can't stop following. I have coined this the Technology Tsunami. Most people feel it coming but just can't seem to fully articulate its source or full implications. We see (More) |
| Thinking Exponentially If I accomplish one thing, I hope it is to get you to think exponentially. It's not easy. Most of us use the past to predict the future. For example, 5 years ago we did not have an iPhone. So, you can say in that period of time, we went from the c (More) |
| Looking Forward by Exponential Periods Been thinking a lot about how to create a vocabulary to communicate about the impact of exponential technology change on all of the products, services, relationships, economics, education, etc. that we deal with on a day to day basis. If we assume (More) |
| The Power of IBM Watson In 1997 my company, SetFocus, began operations and prior to our first class had to outfit a classroom with about 20 PCs. Back then, the latest and greatest was a 166mhz machine for about $1,000. In an effort to shed further light on the notion of (More) |
| How Big is the Brain? How big is the brain? In doing some research for my blog, here is what I found. There are approximately 50,000,000 neurons per square centimeter (50X106 per cm3) Each cm3 neurons have axons that reach out to create 1 trillion synapse (1x1012) If (More) |
